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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, our number two of our radio program.

And we pull out of the oven, the blame pie.

And how much of that blame pie goes to Janice Edentacombo following the Milwaukee Bucks in a playoff game,

a game two, where the other team was lacking one of their top players, James Harden,

and the bucks trailed by as many as 49 points. Wow. So how much of the blame goes to the Greek freak? We'll tell you right now, the blame pie is sliced up here in our number two. About as tough as a deer in the middle of the highway, not much of a chance to survive.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather show.

Here we are together again, in the air everywhere as we smash through coast to coast border to border

and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as

we soar on the red eye all night along here hanging out.

Fox Sports Radio Studios, Hope all is well with you.

And there's a theme this time of the year with the basketball postseason continuing.

And I don't want to ruin that theme.

Our lead this hour coming from the NBA, the Eastern Conference, semifinals, game number two.

And I was expecting a street fight.

I anticipated, listen, game one, surprisingly, without an injured star there, Brooklyn took

Milwaukee to the woodshed.

I said, not going to happen again.

Mean streets of Brooklyn, we go with Marcel,

our caller from Brooklyn, locked in his home somewhere in the projects across the way there.

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